[farfromheaven]

I've never done this before, I wrote "a book" originally, I was trying to get some help or guidance but I didn't think that would be appropriate for my first entry. People fascinate me, hearing them talk about experiences they've had, how they became the person they are and how those experiences may have influenced them to see the world the way they do. I've seen simply extraordinary behavior in individuals esp. while living in the Brookline/Boston area, the ways people would have such determination and passion for another persons feelings and sense of self-worth when that person was having a hard time finding it in themselves- I'm still moved by some of the situations I encountered- so incredible to see someone going above and beyond- even if they had never met. I found true meaning in life and hope for people. I believe the individual person is worth getting to know and be heard and understood. Being able to see other people who genuinely care.
I'm consumed by quotes, poems, and literature. I picked Revelation because it was the first poem that I ever read that really gave it straight. I don't really have any real friends and to say I detest even the thought of "family" in my life is an understatement- it's sad to have no one know you. Revelation is such a beautiful poem, I feel, because it's real. (I'm sorry if I've overdone this.)

Revelation- Robert Frost

"We make ourselves a place apart
behind light words that tease and flout
But oh!- the agitated heart
til' someone truly finds us out

'Tis pity if the case require
or so they say
that in the end we speak the literal to inspire
the understanding of a friend

And so with all from babes that play,
at hide-and-seek, to god afar,
so all who hide too well away
must speak and tell us where they are."

I won't bore you with a big talk before I give you a piece from Auguries of Innocence by William Blake. I think it'll speak for itself and I've done enough talking.



William Blake (first part from Auguries of Innocence)

"To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour"

Ideal.

[susurration]

Not overdone at all. So very delicately done. The opening paragraph adds something special to the poem excerpts.

William Blakes songs of innocence opened my eyes to literature

[Alchemical Romance]

What i find eternally fascinating in Blake is that he always thinks in dichotomies. ex: innocence vs experiance. Never quite

favours any to the end. But this thinking literally outside the box makes him unique for the Romantic movement. Wordsworth

had his Nature...Coleridge his Mariner expiating....Shelley social revolution. Blake had them all. Another surprising fact is

when we interpret his poem scientifically. To see the world in a grain of sand may have been an intuition about the force of

atoms. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternety in an hour---> dilatation of time and space. Had he an intuition

about the relativity of time and space....roughly 200 years before Einstein. For thinking in dichotomies he was alchemical in

nature. So was C.J Jung in devising his theories. He bases his personalities on dichotomies such as Thinking vs Feeling

Sensing vs Intuition etc. In his newly uncovered work "Liber Novis" C. G Jung makes vast references to Blake's poems. ...

sorry if I seem geeky in these matters but Poets such as Blake fueled my imagination since high school.

[thatguy]

Very beautiful words. I love words. Especially when they come in sentences that paint a thousand pictures.
Gonna have me a look at some William Blake and Robert Frost.

[kateykinz]

Robert Frost writes my life so much better than I can. Lyrical bastard!

While I know of William Blake, I have never read any of his poetry. I shall see to that now.

My other favourite poet - Edna St Vincent Millay. Check her out if you don't know of her. This poem of hers so accurately conveys the way I am currently feeling after letting go of the guy who I have spoken of as my best friend since the age of 14 but who I have understood less and less since the age of 21. It would appear that he doesn't like me for me, only for who I used to be.

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely
Went to their deaths more proud than this one went.

Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping
I will confess; but that's permitted me;
Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping
Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.

If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer more,
But at the cost of words I value highly,
And no such summer as the one before.

Should I outlive this anguish, and men do,
I shall have only good to say of you

[PeacePassion]

My favorite poets: Rumi, Leonard Cohen, Sherman Alexie, Charles Bukowski, Charles Baudelaire... those are the ones I've been reading recently anyway! I love Robert Frost too though, and I've been meaning to read more William Blake. And yes, I love Edna St. Vincent Millay.

THE ALIENS
from The Last Night Of The Earth Poems (Bukowkski)

you may not believe it
but there are people
who go through life with
very little
friction of distress.
they dress well, sleep well.
they are contented with
their family
life.
they are undisturbed
and often feel
very good.
and when they die
it is an easy death, usually in their
sleep.

you may not believe
it
but such people do
exist.

but i am not one of
them.
oh no, I am not one of them,
I am not even near
to being
one of
them.
but they
are there

and I am
here.

[TurranMC]

I've never done this before, I wrote "a book" originally, I was trying to get some help or guidance but I didn't think that would be appropriate for my first entry.

The poems were very good farfromheaven, but more importantly I wanted you to know that if you want to talk about your problems nobody here minds =)